Thursday, December 6, 2007

David Jeong

International1

5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game

summary: Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won. Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised. One memory test included three 5-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals 1 through 9, and a dozen human volunteers. They saw nine numbers displayed on a computer screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch all these squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there.

Opinion: Here is a thing they are missing. The college students Matsuzawa used were Japanese and Matsuzawa himself is Japanese. Since this is 'my opinion', i would say if this experiment were to be done in Korea and by Korean students, the result would be completely different. I guess Japanese just proved that they have lower intellect than chimpanzees. Maybe thats why all Japanese products started from copying and lack of originality.

International 2

Venus also zapped by lightning

Summary: For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning -- ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere. But experts weren't sure because of signal interference. Now a magnetic antenna on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe proved that the lightning was real. The lightning is cloud-to-cloud and about 35 miles above the surface.

Opinion: It is always interesting to see and hear about the new information about space. It is a sad story that earth is being so populated and such. Well, I hope scientist would be able to build big space stations and have some kind of space prison or something to isolate the criminals out from the earth. It would be more great to build hotels and spend summer vacations out on the space.

National 1

Bush sends letter to North Korea's Kim Jong Il

summary: President Bush has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il urging him to disclose his country's nuclear programs fully. North Korea is also suspected of sharing its nuclear technology with other nations. North Korea has agreed to a December 31 deadline to disable a key nuclear facility that produced materials for nuclear weapons.

Opinion: That crazy old north Korean is a disaster. He is the most dangerous person on the planet. North Korea, would not completely disable their nuclear programs. They would keep their technology and people and they would try to build nuclear weapons later when all the media is cooled. Well, I think the best way is to forget all the moral and justice nonsense and just invade north korea with bunch of new f-22s.

National 2

Police: Nine killed in shooting at Omaha mall, including gunman

summary: 19-year-old gunman who killed eight people and then himself left a suicide note. Police identified the gunman as Robert A. Hawkins of Nebraska. Hawkins and his girlfriend had recently broken up and he had just lost his job at a McDonald's restaurant. Hawkins apologized and said he no longer wanted to be a burden. He also expressed a sense of worthlessness and said "now he'll be famous,"

opinion: That is a disaster. 9 people lost their lives for a depressed kid. He was an outsider and he knew it and hated it, so he just wanted to be famous for once. Well, he had been a loser for his life and he failed his last mission of his because he did not get to see himself being famous. This is why the gun usage has to be forbidden.

1 comment:

Michael Hjort said...

OUCH!!!

I love astronomy!!!

How can we deal with N. K.

What a sad story in Omaha.